The Talented Husband (England)

"The Talented Husband" is one of six short stories written by Leslie Charteris and included in the thirty-first Saint book The Saint Around the World published in 1956. In keeping with the book's "travelogue" formula, the story is surtitled "England". This story features the final regular appearance of Chief Inspector Claud Eustace Teal in the English-language Saint series (and in fact it is his first appearance in the series since 1939's The Happy Highwayman); he would appear again in one of the French pastiche novels, based upon The Saint.

Television adaptation
"The Talented Husband" was adapted as an episode of The Saint TV series starring Roger Moore and has the distinction of being the very first episode of the series to be broadcast, on 4 October 1962 (thereby also making it the first Charteris story to be adapted by the series).